Renovating a house, a garden and other things

House renovation: rebuilding what they’ve ripped down

December 4, 2010

I was at the house a few days ago and things are coming on. As you might remember, the builders told us it was going to be quicker and cheaper to pull down the whole of the back of the house and rebuild it. So, we started with this:

Then went to this:

Then the builders took all that down and left us with this:

And then last week they started putting back what they’d ripped down, and so far we have this:

There’s something very reassuring about seeing the skeleton of the house going in.

The back of the house takes shape. This will be the kitchen, and looking up to the study and utility room.